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UK competition watchdog drops Microsoft-OpenAI probe
Digital rights campaigners say it shows the regulator has given into Big Tech and been "defanged."
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) was looking into whether Microsoft's relationship with what is the world's best known artificial intelligence (AI) firm changed after the turmoil which saw its boss Sam Altman fired and then rehired. But he added: "The CMA's findings on jurisdiction should not be read as the partnership being given a clean bill of health on potential competition concerns; but the UK merger control regime must of course operate within the remit set down by Parliament." When BBC contacted the CMA for a response to these comments, they pointed us to Mr Bamford's LinkedIn post, where he said: "We are not blind to the length of time that this investigation has taken... We know pace matters to business confidence and investment."
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